Pedro M. Rosario Barbosa
Writer, Editor, and Professor in Caguas, Puerto Rico
Religious views: I have adopted much of the of Liberation Theology, which struggles for social change for the poor and the oppressed. I'm a Religious Naturalist and a Unitarian Universalist, embracing reason, skepticism, and spirituality, loving and dedicating myself to God (as the personification of Ultimate Reality), and as part of the Great Story of the Epic of Evolution, that still unfolds right now. I'm a theist only in this sense, holding no belief in the supernatural. My faith is an evidential faith, this means that I want my ideals (religious, political, and social) to be based solely on rational, empirical, and scientific evidence.
Political views: In the political arena, I am usually in favor of progressive causes, supporter of social-democracy, and a secular society where we thrive in within the a rule of separation of Church and State.
I strongly favor Puerto Rico's independence from the United States. My most active causes have to do with copyright reform, free software, open source, free culture, and GNU/Linux. I am an ecomodernist, and a technoprogressist, and advocate for genetic modification of our food, for medical research, and the inclusion of the nuclear option as a clean energy source besides renewables.
Profession: I teach Philosophy at the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey. I also help authors publish their books using print-on-demand media. My research is specialized in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, but I'm also interested in Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Religion, Phenomenology, Ethics (especially Bioethics), and Analytic Philosophy in general, and Bible scholarship.